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White Chocolate-Ginger Cookies

Pillsbury Kitchens
Updated Aug 22, 2017
Bake-Off® Contest 41, 2004
Robin Wilson
Altamonte Springs, Florida
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Refrigerated cookie dough is dressed up with spices and white chocolate in these extra-special bakery-style cookies.

More About This Recipe

  • White chocolate is one of the best things to ever happen to chocolate—or is it? It just so happens that there is an ongoing debate on whether white chocolate is actually chocolate. It turns out that it technically doesn’t qualify as real chocolate because it doesn’t contain cocoa powder. Instead, it’s made with cocoa butter. Whether you’re a fan of white chocolate or not, it’s become almost as customary as chocolate, and appears in bakeries, cookbooks and holiday cookie exchanges almost as often! These White Chocolate Ginger Cookies offer warm, nutty flavors with ginger and nutmeg which just so happens to be the perfect complement to white chocolate. Now that you have a fun fact to share at your holiday party, how about a few more fun cookie facts Or if you’d rather impress guests with your baking skills, these gingerbread cookies should do the trick!

White Chocolate-Ginger Cookies

  • Prep Time 1 hr 20 min
  • Total 1 hr 20 min
  • Ingredients 12
  • Servings 12
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Ingredients

Cookies

  • 1 roll (16.5 oz) refrigerated Pillsbury™ Sugar Cookie Dough
  • 1/4 cup packed dark brown sugar
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 2 teaspoons grated orange peel
  • 1 package (6 oz) white chocolate baking bars, coarsely chopped
  • 3/4 cup Fisher® Chef's Naturals® Chopped Pecans
  • 1/3 cup finely chopped crystallized ginger*

Glaze

  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar
  • 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 3 to 3 1/2 teaspoons orange juice

Instructions

  • Step 
    1
    Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, break up cookie dough. Stir or knead in brown sugar, 1 1/4 teaspoons cinnamon, the ginger, nutmeg and orange peel until well blended. Stir in white chocolate baking bars, pecans and crystallized ginger. On ungreased cookie sheets, drop dough by 1/4 cupfuls 3 inches apart.
  • Step 
    2
    Bake 13 to 17 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 15 minutes.
  • Step 
    3
    In small bowl, mix powdered sugar, 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon and enough orange juice for desired drizzling consistency. Drizzle glaze over cooled cookies. Let stand until glaze is set.

Nutrition

350 Calories
17g Total Fat
3g Protein
46g Total Carbohydrate
32g Sugars

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 Cookie
Calories
350
Calories from Fat
160
Total Fat
17g
27%
Saturated Fat
5g
26%
Trans Fat
2g
Cholesterol
15mg
5%
Sodium
120mg
5%
Potassium
90mg
3%
Total Carbohydrate
46g
15%
Dietary Fiber
0g
0%
Sugars
32g
Protein
3g
% Daily Value*:
Vitamin A
0%
0%
Vitamin C
0%
0%
Calcium
4%
4%
Iron
4%
4%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 2 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 3 1/2 Fat;
Carbohydrate Choice
3
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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